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Enco,

I have read about that guy. So much for Jew York.

The lefties are competing with each other for being zealots and demanding conformity of thought.

This philosophy professor in Belgium says the lefty religionists take the cake. The university is the secular church. You can quote me on that.

Disparate thoughts on a Sunday is fun day unless you are in Bay of Fundy and fundamentalists are instrumental in attacking you, shellacking you and then smacking you. Sunday afternoon on the Island of la Grand Jatte vibes.

Excellent thoughts expressed like a box by our fearless Fronky Farmer in re. to current US administration and lack of…[Read more]

I am immune to “ChatGPT rotting my brain”:

I bring my thinking to ChatGPT, rather than leaving my thinking to it.

I value thinking as a craft, not a checkbox.

I interrogate my own ideas before accepting them.

I enjoy the process of discovery, not just the conclusion.

I use tools (including me) to refine thought, not to substitute it.

I rem…[Read more]

Yes, I agree with much of that assessment but its never to later to start. Banning cellphones during school hours and ongoing teacher training and development would be good too. In every country.

A.I. or Human…..take the test here.

One solution is to teach children critical thinking as a dedicated school subject, like math or history. Teach children how to question, explore ideas, and understand the history of thought. Learn to spot the differences between valid and invalid reasoning and cause vs. correlation. Understand how arguments are constructed and defended by knowing…[Read more]

The challenge facing the current American administration is not the pace of change, but its utter lack of a coherent vision for what should replace existing structures. This is not the “traditional conservatism” so often touted during GOP campaigns, where reform is pursued with caution and respect for institutional continuity. Instead, it is a rec…[Read more]

Assessments of educational quality are not so positive in the United States, unfortunately. To be sure, there are committed teachers and administrators doing good work in many elementary and secondary schools. But overall, the picture is not bright, and this seems especially true in the case of science education.

Joe Rogan is the key science and…[Read more]

Thanks Reg 🙂

Have a great week everyone!

Reg, you just described my last physician. One MD. Two person staff. And he told me last few years was not even drawing a check.

I can well imagine the boon delivered by you in those time saving services.

And docs are so overworked i think that it is understandable that they can’t always give good care.

One of my professional roles is to improve the IT systems of small medical practices. Most are owned by one MD with maybe a 2 or 3 other medical staff. They close every Wednesday afternoon. I once asked what she did for those afternoons. “About 5 o…[Read more]

Enco, it seems like more and more nurse practitioners/physician assistants in my neck of the woods. Really not enough docs. And docs are so overworked i think that it is understandable that they can’t always give good care. And that is without dealing with issues over insurers and coverage.

But with the nondocs having patients they are in…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Israel, like all of us, could use more medicine, more professionals, and more quality in both, provided by a free market in healthcare.

Which countries are successful at this kind of free market?

Globalize the intifada.

Rivers and seas Palestine freeze…errr From some river and some sea Juden free

I gotta hand it to the lefties doing the bidding of the muslim brotherhood. Indoctrinating the mindless immensely. You are all aces. Humans can be conditioned to believe anything. I think i heard that someplace?…[Read more]

Agreed Robert.

And don’t forget how big kibbutzim were. Socialist project. Universal health care according to Wilf.

Not only are Israelis turning right as the two state solution has proven illusory and more and more Israelis know that. Jews in US and Europe voting right and in some instances far right that would have been unthinkable not long…[Read more]

I would characterize Israel to be way more “left/liberal” than right/conservative Iran.  Jews have comprised much of the leading liberal Intelligentsia in many Western countries for decades. Historically, Israel was dominated by left-leaning parties but has become more conservative and defensive over the decades. Easy to see why.

Enco,

Listened to the inimitable, incomparable Wilfster.

Excellent video. I’d certainly want her on a panel to debate the Lefties/Islamists. A font of knowledge and wisdom borne of reflection and acuity. Good luck taking her down. Though starting as a lefty in Israel experience taught her that putative Palestinian grievances are not the cause…[Read more]

Pope,

I see you chose to address nonofit even for the funofit.

No certainty as to what you are going on about. Only hunches. So i asked meta and here is the response.

This text appears to be a satirical response to your original post. The author is using humor and irony to make several points, including [1]:
– Critique of advertising: The…[Read more]